Projects
Optimal Integration of Thermal Energy Storage and Conversion in Fourth Generation Thermal Networks KU Leuven
This dissertation investigates the integration of thermal energy storage and conversion systems in fourth generation thermal networks, with a focus on district heating networks. Energy storage, more specifically in the form of heat or cold, will play a crucial role in future energy systems where large shares of renewable and residual energy sources are included. Due to the variability and seasonality of particular renewable sources, energy ...
Strategic Research Programme: Exercise and the brain in health & diseases: the added value of human-centered robotics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Strategic Research Programme: Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe (EDGE) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Interdisciplinary Network for Fundamental and Medical Research on Lung cancer Vrije Universiteit Brussel
From Text to Time: Machine Learning Approaches to Temporal Information Extraction from Text KU Leuven
Temporal information extraction is and has been a crucial aspect of automatic language understanding. With the increase in digitization of texts like news papers, but also electronic health records, high quality extraction of temporal information about the described events gives rise to many applications, like question answering, summarization, temporal information retrieval, and automatic timeline visualization.
In this dissertation, ...
Bridging the Image and Text Spaces with Neural Network Methods for Multimodal Representation Learning and Spatial Understanding KU Leuven
In the recent years, the emergence of deep learning models has greatly advanced computer vision and natural language processing (NLP). These models allow producing feature representations for images and words. For example, convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Mikolov’s et al. skip-gram model are popular means to extract such features from images and text corpora respectively. These representations are typically employed either in concept ...
TransBio:Biogas Versie 2.0:Â Technological transition of the Flemish biogas sector towards innovative business models with increased profitability and reduced support dependence Biogas-E - Anaerobic digestion platform for Flanders npo
The biogas sector in Flanders counts approx. 40 large scale installations, and 50 to 75 small scale (farm sized) installations. Biogas, as a renewable energy technology, produced 602 GWh of renewable electricity and 850 GWh of renewable heat in 2013. Yearly, 1.3 million tons of organic waste is converted to biogas, alongside hundreds of thousands of tons of manure. The biogas technology is therefore responsible for the valorisation of a large ...